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Zhuang Liu
I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, advised by Trevor Darrell, and B.S. in Computer Science from Yao Class, Tsinghua University. Before joining Princeton, I worked as a Research Scientist at Meta FAIR, New York. I also worked as a research intern at Cornell, Intel, Adobe, and FAIR.
My research areas are deep learning and computer vision, with an emphasis on understanding how models work and behave. My work spans vision and language, unified by a focus on deep learning methods, representations, and architectures.
I explore simple approaches to gain empirical insights into neural networks. My research often challenges existing beliefs, e.g., inarchitectures,training,pruning, anddatasets.
I led the development of DenseNet (CVPR Best Paper Award) and ConvNeXt.
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Research Group
PhD Students
Recent and selected publications(* equal contribution)
Transformers without Normalization
Jiachen Zhu, Xinlei Chen, Kaiming He, Yann LeCun, Zhuang Liu
CVPR 2025
MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning
Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Jiachen Zhu, Yunyang Xiong, Xinlei Chen, Koustuv Sinha, Michael Rabbat,
Yann LeCun, Saining Xie, Zhuang Liu
arXiv 2024
A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?
Zhuang Liu, Kaiming He
ICLR 2025
Oral Presentation
Deconstructing Denoising Diffusion Models for Self-Supervised Learning
Xinlei Chen, Zhuang Liu, Saining Xie, Kaiming He
ICLR 2025
Massive Activations in Large Language Models
Mingjie Sun, Xinlei Chen, J. Zico Kolter, Zhuang Liu
COLM 2024
Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs
Shengbang Tong, Zhuang Liu, Yuexiang Zhai, Yi Ma, Yann LeCun, Saining Xie
CVPR 2024
A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models
Mingjie Sun*, Zhuang Liu*, Anna Bair, Zico Kolter
ICLR 2024
A ConvNet for the 2020s
Zhuang Liu, Hanzi Mao, Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Trevor Darrell, Saining Xie
CVPR 2022
Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning
Zhuang Liu*, Mingjie Sun*, Tinghui Zhou, Gao Huang, Trevor Darrell
ICLR 2019
NeurIPS'18 Compact Neural Networks Workshop Best Paper Award
Learning Efficient Convolutional Networks through Network Slimming
Zhuang Liu, Jianguo Li, Zhiqiang Shen, Gao Huang, Shoumeng Yan, Changshui Zhang
ICCV 2017
[Paper] [Code1] [Code2] [Code3 (3rd-party)]
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
Zhuang Liu*, Gao Huang*, Laurens van der Maaten, Kilian Weinberger
CVPR 2017
CVPR Best Paper Award
Publications(* equal contribution, for full list please see Google Scholar)
A Coefficient Makes SVRG Effective
Yida Yin, Zhiqiu Xu, Zhiyuan Li, Trevor Darrell, Zhuang Liu
ICLR 2025
Neural Network Diffusion
Kai Wang, Zhaopan Xu, Yukun Zhou, Zelin Zang, Trevor Darrell, Zhuang Liu*, Yang You*
arXiv 2024
Initializing Models with Larger Ones
Zhiqiu Xu, Yanjie Chen, Kirill Vishniakov, Yida Yin, Zhiqiang Shen, Trevor Darrell, Lingjie Liu, Zhuang Liu
ICLR 2024
Spotlight Presentation
ConvNet vs Transformer, Supervised vs CLIP: Beyond ImageNet Accuracy
Kirill Vishniakov, Zhiqiang Shen, Zhuang Liu
ICML 2024
Dropout Reduces Underfitting
Zhuang Liu*, Zhiqiu Xu*, Joseph Jin, Zhiqiang Shen, Trevor Darrell
ICML 2023
ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All
Rohit Girdhar*, Alaaeldin El-Nouby*, Zhuang Liu, Mannat Singh, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Armand Joulin, Ishan Misra*
CVPR 2023
Highlighted Paper
ConvNeXt V2: Co-designing and Scaling ConvNets with Masked Autoencoders
Sanghyun Woo, Shoubhik Debnath, Ronghang Hu, Xinlei Chen, Zhuang Liu, In So Kweon, Saining Xie
CVPR 2023
Exploring Simple and Transferable Recognition-Aware Image Processing
Zhuang Liu, Hungju Wang, Tinghui Zhou, Zhiqiang Shen, Bingyi Kang, Evan Shelhamer, Trevor Darrell
TPAMI 2022
Anytime Dense Prediction with Confidence Adaptivity
Zhuang Liu, Hung-Ju Wang, Zhiqiu Xu, Trevor Darrell, Evan Shelhamer
ICLR 2022
Vision Transformer Slimming: Multi-Dimension Searching in Continuous Optimization Space
Arnav Chavan*, Zhiqiang Shen*, Zhuang Liu, Zechun Liu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Eric Xing
CVPR 2022
Un-Mix: Rethinking Image Mixtures for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning
Zhiqiang Shen, Zechun Liu, Zhuang Liu, Marios Savvides, Trevor Darrell
AAAI 2022
Meta-Baseline: Exploring Simple Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Learning
Yinbo Chen, Zhuang Liu, Huijuan Xu, Trevor Darrell, Xiaolong Wang
ICCV 2021
SensAI: Fast ConvNets Serving on Live Data via Class Parallelism
Guanhua Wang, Zhuang Liu, Siyuan Zhuang, Brandon Hsieh, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Trevor Darrell, Ion Stoica
Machine Learning and Systems 2021
Regularization Matters in Policy Optimization - An Empirical Study on Continuous Control
Zhuang Liu*, Xuanlin Li*, Bingyi Kang, Trevor Darrell
ICLR 2021
[Paper] [Code] [OpenReview] [Video]
Spotlight Presentation
Test-Time Training for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Yu Sun, Xiaolong Wang, Zhuang Liu, John Miller, Alexei A. Efros, Moritz Hardt
ICML 2020
MSeg: A Composite Dataset for Multi-domain Semantic Segmentation
John Lambert*, Zhuang Liu*, Ozan Sener, James Hays, Vladlen Koltun
CVPR 2020
Few Sample Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Network Compression
Tianhong Li, Jianguo Li, Zhuang Liu, Changshui Zhang
CVPR 2020
Few-shot Object Detection via Feature Reweighting
Bingyi Kang*, Zhuang Liu*, Xin Wang, Fisher Yu, Jiashi Feng, Trevor Darrell
ICCV 2019
DSOD: Learning Deeply Supervised Object Detectors from Scratch
Zhiqiang Shen*, Zhuang Liu*, Jianguo Li, Yu-Gang Jiang, Yurong Chen, Xiangyang Xue
ICCV 2017
Deep Networks with Stochastic Depth
Gao Huang*, Yu Sun*, Zhuang Liu, Daniel Sedra, Kilian Weinberger
ECCV 2016
Spotlight Presentation
Others
I served or will be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS (23, 24, D&B track 22, 24), ICLR (25), ICML (25), CVPR (25), ICCV (23, 25).
I also regularly served as a Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and other conferences and journals.
Fun facts: I served as a NeurIPS Area Chair before publishing my first NeurIPS paper. I also scored the highest in China's National College Entrance Exam in Sciences among 300,000 students.